Concrete Angel – 英语/中文 双语歌词

• 作者: Martina McBride

歌词与翻译

[英语]

[中文]

She walks to school with the lunch she packed

她带着自己准备的午餐去上学

Nobody knows what she's holding back

没人知道她隐藏着什么

Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday

穿着昨天穿过的旧裙子

She hides the bruises with the linen and lace ohhh

她用亚麻和蕾丝遮掩着伤痕，哦

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The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask

老师有所察觉，但没有询问

It's hard to see the pain behind the mask

很难看清面具后的痛苦

Bearin' the burden of the secret storm

背负着秘密风暴的重担

Sometimes she wishes she was never born

有时她希望自己从未出生

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone

在风雨中，她像石头一样坚强地站立

In a world that she can't rise above

在一个她无法超越的世界里

But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved

但她的梦想赋予她翅膀，她飞向一个被爱的地方

Concrete angel

水泥天使

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Somebody cries in the middle of the night

有人在深夜哭泣

The neighbors hear but they turn out the light

邻居听到了，却关掉了灯

A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate

一个脆弱的灵魂被命运掌握

When morning comes it'll be too late

当早晨来临，一切都太迟了

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone

在风雨中，她像石头一样坚强地站立

In a world that she can't rise above

在一个她无法超越的世界里

But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved

但她的梦想赋予她翅膀，她飞向一个被爱的地方

Concrete angel

水泥天使

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A statue stands in a shaded place

一座雕像伫立在阴凉处

An angel girl with an upturned face

一个仰着脸的天使女孩

A name is written on a polished rock

名字刻在光滑的石头上

A broken heart that the world forgot

一颗被世界遗忘的破碎的心

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone

在风雨中，她像石头一样坚强地站立

In a world that she can't rise above

在一个她无法超越的世界里

But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved

但她的梦想赋予她翅膀，她飞向一个被爱的地方

Concrete angel

水泥天使

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重点词汇

词汇	含义
walk /wɔːk/ A1	verb - 走
school /skuːl/ A1	noun - 学校
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - 梦 verb - 梦想
pain /peɪn/ B1	noun - 痛苦
fragile /ˈfrædʒaɪl/ B2	adjective - 脆弱的
burden /ˈbɜːrdən/ B2	noun - 负担
angel /ˈeɪndʒəl/ B2	noun - 天使
stone /stoʊn/ B1	noun - 石头
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - 世界
place /pleɪs/ A1	noun - 地方
night /naɪt/ A1	noun - 夜晚
heart /hɑːrt/ A2	noun - 心脏 noun - 心
forgot /fərˈɡɒt/ B1	verb - 忘记
wings /wɪŋz/ B2	noun - 翅膀

重点语法结构

• Nobody knows what she's holding back

  ➔ 使用“what”的嵌入式问题

  ➔ 子句“what she's holding back”充当动词“knows”的宾语。 这是一个嵌入式问题，意味着它是一个包含在语句中的问题。

• Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday

  ➔ 分词短语表示原因/描述

  ➔ “Wearing the same dress...”描述了这个女孩，并为她的处境提供了背景。 这暗示她穿着同样的衣服是*因为*她的处境。

• It's hard to see the pain behind the mask

  ➔ 非人称“it”+ 形容词 + to 不定式

  ➔ “it” 是一个虚主语，而真正的主语是动词不定式短语“to see the pain behind the mask”。 此结构强调了行动的困难。

• Sometimes she wishes she was never born

  ➔ “wish” 引导的从句中使用虚拟语气，表示与过去事实相反的愿望

  ➔ 短语“she was never born”使用虚拟语气（使用“was”而不是“were”，这在语法上更正确，但在口语英语中很常见）来表达对过去无法改变的事情的愿望。 这表明对过去的遗憾。

• Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone

  ➔ 使用“as...as”的比喻

  ➔ 短语“hard as a stone”使用比喻来将女孩的韧性与石头的硬度进行比较。 突出了她忍受困境的能力。

• In a world that she can't rise above

  ➔ 省略关系代词的关系从句

  ➔ 关系代词“that”或“which”（充当“rise above”的宾语）被省略。完整的句子是“In a world that she can't rise above.”

• When morning comes it'll be too late

  ➔ 主句使用一般将来时的第一条件句

  ➔ 这是一个第一条件句，表达了可能出现的未来情况及其可能的结果。 “When morning comes”是if从句（尽管“if”是隐含的），“it'll be too late”是主句，描述了如果满足条件会发生什么。